Iranian cartoonist tops Turkish contest

The jury of the 29th Aydin Dogan International Cartoon Competition announced the winners and the members’ comments on the selected works on June 5.

Second award went to Serbian artist Vladimir Stankovski and Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski was named as the third winner of this year’s competition.

Alieh Mazhari and Negin Naqian, the other Iranian representatives, are also in the list of ten remarkable cartoonists of the contest that are slated to receive the Success Award.

The prominent Iranian artist Firouzeh Mozaffari, as a jury member, also attended the 2012 Aydin Dogan International Cartoon Competition.

About 944 artists from 80 countries around the world with 2945 works participated in this year’s competition.

The 29th competition’s award ceremony is scheduled to be held on October 7, 2012 in Istanbul.

The top winner will receive 8,000 USD and the Aydin Dogan Foundation Winner Award, while the First Runner up will gain 5,000 USD and the foundation’s First Runner up Award.

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